| Niveau de description |
Fonds |
| Collection |
KAPLAN, Nathan : interview tapes.
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| No du fonds |
P0170 |
| Collation |
4 sound elements. |
| Notice biographique / histoire administrative |
Nathan Kaplan was born April 10, 1909 in Padubissai, Lithuania, the son of a wealthy farming family. Kaplan came to Canada in 1939, with some of his family escaping through Japan. First settling on a farm in Ontario, he moved to Montreal after his marrriage in 1949. He started a textile design studio. A painter as well, many of his artworks depict pre-war and Holocaust themes. The interviews in this fonds were carried out by Eiran Harris, a member of the CJC National Archives committee and a frequent contributor to the Archives Sound Collection |
| Histoire de la conservation |
The tapes were donated to the CJC National Archives by interviewer Eiran Harris, with the signed consent of Mr. Kaplan, who retains his own copies of the tapes |
| Portée et contenu |
4 cassette tapes, (3 of them 90 minutes and 1 of them 60 minutes) of Nathan Kaplan interviewed by Eiran Harris about early life in Lithuania, immigration to Ontario where he lived on a farm, later life as an artist with a speciality depicting the wooden synagogues of pre-WWII Europe. A short typed biography accompanies the tapes |
| Dépôt d'archives |
Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives |
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